Linaro Ltd.'s OpenDataPlane

The OpenDataPlane (ODP) project is a founding initiative by the Linaro
Networking Group to produce an open-source, cross-platform application
programming interface (API) for the
networking Software Defined Data Plane. Linaro Ltd. recently announced the
availability of the first Long Term Support (LTS) Monarch release of
OpenDataPlane, which will enable other projects to leverage the
acceleration provided by the ODP APIs now that the code base will be fully
supported for the foreseeable future.

Linaro adds that work already
has begun on network protocol stacks, such as OpenFastPath (OFP), products like
the nginx web server accelerated with ODP and OFP and libraries like
OpenSSL that provide crypto acceleration via ODP. In addition, ODP and
ODP-based products, such as OFP, nginx and
OpenSSL, now can be made available as packages in popular Linux
distributions like Debian, CentOS and OpenEmbedded. To accompany the
release, Linaro launched a validation test suite that permits users and
vendors to verify API compatibility between different ODP implementations.